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If you have a child for whom surgery that requires general anesthesia is recommended, experts are suggesting you think twice about whether it can't be put off for a while. The concern among those experts is that they don't really know what effect general anesthetic...
Advances in medicine are happening all the time. Often they are hugely important and deserve to have word of them spread. Sometimes they may be important, but in the absence of any solid data proving their value, they should be studied with a certain level of healthy...
For Oregon patients that are victims of spinal surgical errors caused by doctor negligence, the prognosis is often grim. Paralysis below the point of the initial trauma is far too often the inevitable result, and little can be done to help those who are paralyzed...
Each year, about 17 percent of men in Oregon and nationwide will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. Upon receiving this news, most men opt for aggressive treatment options, despite the accompanying long-term side effects of that choice. However, a new study suggests...
A recent story illustrates that surgical errors continue to happen in America's hospitals, despite improved procedures to manage operating rooms and additional personnel being in place. According to sources, a donor woman undergoing a kidney transplant operation bled...
Hernias are a fairly common condition in which one's intestines breach the wall of abdominal muscle meant to keep them in place. Anyone in Eugene who has ever tried to lift something too heavy, contorted him or herself oddly while playing sports or been in a traumatic...
We've all had days at work when we showed up tired. Chances are most of us were able to adjust our workloads and bounce back the next day. But what happens when that workplace is a hospital? It turns out that fatigue may be a significant cause of surgical errors in...